Scouts flew in.

"Fang Shuai, ten miles away from us, I saw the enemy's cavalry." The scout said profusely sweating.

Fang Bao was taken aback and asked nervously, "How many people?" How many people are there? ”

The scout said uncertainly, "It is estimated that there are several thousand ......"

"Order the troops, stop the advance, form a dense formation, and prepare to block the enemy." Fang Bao shouted loudly, "Send someone to inform He Shuai, quickly move closer to our department, and the enemy's cavalry unit has appeared." ”

The drum beats. The Yellow Turban soldiers quickly gathered together and set up a defensive position.

"Fang Shuai, aren't we retreating?" At this time, several military commanders of the Yellow Turban Army drove horses and asked one after another.

"Fang Shuai, the enemy has thousands of cavalry, I'm afraid we can't deal with it."

……

Fang Bao waved his hand, signaling everyone to be quiet.

"He Shuai had already expected that the enemy might attack us, so the Chinese army following us was actually the main force, with 20,000 people, and it was now ten miles away from us. There are still 30,000 people on our right flank, eight miles from us. All we have to do is hold back here a little, and then we will feign defeat and lure the enemy into the encirclement, and the main force will fight it. ”

"How can there be troops on our right flank?" A military commander asked in surprise.

Fang Bao's eyes widened, and he scolded loudly: "Just obey my orders, why do you ask a lot?" Want to die? ”

………………

Yue Fei saw Zhao Yun rushing over like crazy, and hurriedly hit his horse to meet him.

"Pengju, Sang Ziyuan found traces of enemy troops."

"Sang Ziyuan?" Yue Fei repeated in surprise, "Sang Ziyuan? Isn't Sang Ziyuan on the right side of He Li's department? Where are there enemy troops? ”

"Yes, the news is very accurate, and it was reported by a local lieutenant commander himself. I've sent someone to review it, and there are about 20,000 of them. ”

Yue Fei unfolded the map, his face showed a look of horror, and said, "Fang Bao's location is an ambush circle. ”

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Yes." The troops must retreat immediately, and they will not be able to do so. ”

"Retreat." Yue Fei shouted at the heralds, "Inform all the tribes and immediately retreat in the direction of Handan." ”

The heralds immediately dispersed and galloped away.

Zhao Yun and Yue Fei looked at each other, the fear in their eyes getting stronger and stronger. Their first thought was that there was a traitor in their army, and the location of their ambush was determined after repeated consultations and surveys of the terrain, and the people who knew the specific location were only a few military marquis, and no one else.

Both of them thought of Gongsun Chan.

Li Yi asked Zhao Yun to bring the instructions, and Gongsun Zhan also read it.

In response to the offensive posture of the Yellow Turban Army, Li Yi asked Zhao Yun to bring instructions to mention countermeasures.

In today's absolute disadvantage, it is impossible to turn defeat into victory and drive Zhang Jiao out of Wei County. But if you want to keep it, it's a dead end. A solution must be found. Li Yi, who is in Yecheng, has also been thinking about this problem.

After thinking about it, Li Yi understood very well that if he wanted to solve the current predicament, it was obviously not a way to limit his thinking to Wei County.

The strategic goal of the Yellow Turban Army was to occupy Yecheng. They have made meticulous preparations to achieve this strategic goal.

In the eyes of Zhang Jiao and other generals of the Yellow Turban Army, if they used their main forces to attack Yecheng, Li Yi's reinforcements from Youzhou would definitely attack the people, reprimand them, and cut off their retreat. This is not good news for the Yellow Turban Army to attack Yecheng.

Therefore, if you want to attack Yecheng, you must first deal with the Youzhou reinforcements led by Yue Fei. At the very least, it must be held back so that it cannot be contacted by the army of Yecheng.

What Zhang Jiao wanted most was, of course, to directly solve the 10,000 cavalry reinforcements led by Yue Fei. Because the opponent is cavalry, and the Yellow Turban Army does not have cavalry, it is difficult to hold back.

Zhang Jiao grasped Yue Fei's psychological weakness, that is, to rescue Li Yi in Yecheng. So they made it look like they were attacking Yecheng with all their might, forcing Yue Fei to come to help. If Yue Fei's reinforcements can be encircled and annihilated, it will solve the worries of the Yellow Turban Army besieging Yecheng. Taking a step back, even if a stalemate is formed, the situation in Yecheng will be temporarily stabilized.

In doing so, the Yellow Turbans obviously did not have the ability and confidence to fight on two fronts at the same time. The current stalemate between the two sides on the Yecheng battlefield was deliberately created by the Yellow Turban Army, and it was also what they needed.

Of course, these are the plans of Zhang Jiao, which Li Yi analyzed. In order to solve this situation, he must come up with a countermeasure.

If you want to defeat Zhang Jiao, the breakthrough should be in Yecheng.

Because in today's Yuzhou battlefield, Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Cao Cao and others have pacified the Yellow Turban Army, and then the troops are divided into two routes, Zhu Jun and his general Sun Jian led the army south to Jingzhou, intending to attack the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Jiangxia. Huangfu Song and Cao Cao led the army north, intending to attack the Yellow Turban Army in Yanzhou East County.

If Huangfu Song defeats the Yellow Turban Army in Dongjun, then he can either go north to Yecheng and join forces with Li Yi, or he can turn to attack Julu County, the Yellow Turban Army's lair.

If Huangfu Song came to Yecheng, the two sides would definitely face a real decisive battle, a decisive battle that would determine the fate of the Han Dynasty and the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Jiao is not too worried about this, because he has a very obvious advantage in terms of troops. He had an army of 200,000 under his command, and his brother had an army of 100,000. In total, there were 300,000 troops. As for the imperial court, even if you add the army led by Huangfu Song and Cao Cao, it is only seventy or eighty thousand.

Zhang Jiao's biggest worry is that the back road will be cut off. Last time, Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei led a large army to attack Guangzong, but Zhang Jiao was taken aback.

If Zhang Jiao's attack on Yecheng is blocked, and Lao Nest is attacked by the Youzhou army, in this case, he is most worried about supplies. You know, it's still June, and it's far from harvest season. If the supply cannot keep up in time, the 200,000 troops of the Yellow Turban Army may face the fate of annihilation.

Once such a situation arises, his only recourse is to withdraw his troops and withdraw to Guangzong. Withdrawing, not only did the main force have no losses, but also consolidated and stabilized the old nest, and could continue to fight again. But if you can't get back, then it's all over.

Li Yi told Yue Fei in the order that Zhao Yun brought him, asking him not to go to Yecheng to join him, but to use the mobility of the cavalry to threaten the rear of the Yellow Turban Army.

In fact, if he hadn't been worried about the fighting will of the remnants of the Northern Army in Yecheng, Li Pengfei would not have led his 5,000 cavalry into Yecheng at all.

For a period of time in the future, Li Yi's plan was to defend the city in the direction of Yecheng, and Yue Fei's cavalry troops would guerrilla the opponent in the field, so as to hold back the enemy and keep the Yellow Turban Army east of Zhangshui as the main purpose. At the same time, wait for an opportunity to attack Quang Binh and Julu, threatening the enemy's lair and supplies.

Li Pengfei's plan is like this, but he did not make a clear request on how to do it, but let Yue Fei decide for himself. He believed that with Yue Fei's ability, he would definitely make the most appropriate choice.

It was on that night that Yue Fei, Zhao Yun and Gongsun Zan together made a plan to ambush He Libu of the Yellow Turban Army.

At the same time, Yue Fei suggested that Gongsun Zhan lead his headquarters to rush to the people. If his ambush is successful, Gongsun Zhan's troops will have to participate in the blockade of Xiao Zuo's troops of the Yellow Turban Army.

Of course, Gongsun Chan will not be a traitor, as a son of Haoqiang, he is a mortal enemy with the Yellow Turban Army, and there is no reason to help the Yellow Turban Army.

However, when Gongsun Chan returned to his barracks, he would definitely discuss with his subordinates about sending troops, and the specific plan for this operation would inevitably be mentioned. And those of his subordinates, who can guarantee that there are no Yellow Turban Army members among them?